Bosch aims to avoid Hollywood stereotypes in its depiction of Los Angeles

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Many L.A.-set shows reduce the City of Angels to a collection of stock images. Not Amazon's Bosch. “Most of the (LA-set) shows that we see, a lot of it feels like it’s filmed west of the 405 (freeway),” says Bosch writer and producer Tom Bernardo. “It’s a very different L.A. than being Downtown near Skid Row, like we were in Season 3.… there’s a lot of different versions of the city in this place. And I feel like we go to these places and depict them geographically and story-wise as they are.” Bernardo adds: “The thing that strikes me is that there’s something about Harry Bosch that is intimately identified with the totality of the city, the whole of the city… he sees it and he feels it, but he’s also at a remove. And he’s alone. He sort of plays into that sort of lone wolf character, and he’s up there by himself, but he’s a guy who can never leave L.A.—he is L.A. in so many ways—but (he) also wants a certain distance from it, a certain remove from it, a certain angle on it that most people might not otherwise get.”

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